A DDOS attack is a dedicated denial of service by making a computer's resources unusable to its users. In order to prevent it, you need a good firewall. You can also block those attacking IP addresses.
Smurfing
Many hosts participate in a coordinated attack.
Many hosts participate in a coordinated attack.
What you are describing is not a type of malware, but a DoS (Denial of Service) attack.
distributed denial-of-service attack or known as DDoS
A DDoS attack is characterized by multiple machines spamming specific packets to a target machine with the intent of overloading the target machine so it is unable to service other connecting clients.
Advanced hardware firewalls can protect a company from falling to a DDOS attack, though not the most sophisticated attacks. Servers can also be configured to minimize the effect of an attack to define limits on application resource allocation. There are also DDOS mitigation appliances available to "sanitize" traffic, though none are perfect and will allow some bad traffic through.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
A DDoS attack
Because they are capable of conducting a very hard to prevent DDoS attack.
A Denial of Service attack (Abbreviated as DoS).
DDoS attacks can harm one's website in multiple ways. The DDoS protection system is able to act as an anti virus system for a website. It will protect one's business and data. It can recognize all data and files that can harm one's website.